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WirDcfl D-10 Sunday, July 3, 1994 Sentinel Airvar was ifc dlftsraRfls (srowdk MMim Tens of thousands 4 IV-. fii' II i rally to denounce Rabin, peace plan 1 (3 PLO leader sees Jerusalem as next Palestinian capital The Associated Press JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip Yasser Arafat visited the birthplace of the Palestinian uprising Saturday and asked a wildly cheering crowd to help him build an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. "The' challenge is to be or not to be," Arafat said from a balcony hung with banners praising the Pales-' tlnian struggle. "Can we really build a national au- thority that will lead to a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital?" The crowd roared: "Yes, yes, yes." Jerusalem is the crown jewel for Palestinians, who dream of someday making the city's Arab sector the capital of a future independent state. Israel considers Jerusalem its capital.

It seized Arab east Jerusalem in 1967. Arafat saluted Jebaliya camp, where youths fought Israeli soldiers with stones and bottles in a rebellion that paved the way for the autonomy agreement with Israel and Arafat's own return. He appeared more animated and forceful than in his speech in Gaza City on Friday, hours after he crossed into Palestinian lands for the first time since 1967. '-Although he has been careful not to anger the Israelis with incendiary statements, he shook his index finger violently when he spoke about Jerusalem. In the city itself, thousands of Jews turned out for anti-Arafat protests.

Saturday's speech recaptured some of the boundless euphoria among Palestinians after gaining autonomy the Gaza Strip and Jericho. At least 10,000 people turned out to see Arafat and swarmed around his security force. The lively, spontaneous rapport between Arafat and the adulating crowd gave the strongest indication so far, that he possesses the charisma to unite his frac-, tious constituents despite considerable domestic opposition. He called on Muslim fundamentalists and other opponents to join him in the self-rule government. 'This national authority is for all Palestinians and all Palestinian territory," he said.

'He added that the PLO-Israel accord was the best The Associated Press JERUSALEM Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis burned pictures of Yasser Arafat and denounced him as a "murderer" Saturday in a massive show of strength against Israel-PLO peacemaking. Several hundred grew violent during a march toward the old walled city. Amid shouts of "slaughter the Arabs," they threw a smoke bomb at police, set fires on a main road, torched an Arab-owned car, banged on metal doors of Arab shops and cars with sticks. At least one demonstrator was detained. Several hundred youths forced open an iron gate to the Palestinian-populated old city and tried to move inside.

Police linked arms to keep them out, but some demonstrators broke through and went on a rampage inside the Muslim quarter. They also threw stones at the police, injuring one officer. Several dozen tried to get onto the Temple Mount, site of two ancient Jewish temples and the Al Aqsa mosque, but were forced back, police said. The standoff continued well over two hours, even after police reinforcements were rushed in. Organizers accused police of beating two protesters with sticks.

The demonstrators, many of them religious, gathered after the Sabbath ended at sundown to decry Arafat and his claims to the holy city of Jerusalem, which both Israelis and Palestinians view as their capital. Their anger also turned toward Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for concessions to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has taken control of the Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jericho under the first step of a self-rule accord. Police estimated the crowd size at above 100,000 while organizers claimed the figure was twice that. It was one of the largest protests in years in Jerusalem. Using Jerusalem as an emotional backdrop, hardline opponents of the peace accords condemned the PLO chairman for past attacks against Jews.

Some demonstrators burned Palestinian flags and pictures of Arafat. Hundreds of banners displayed anti-Arafat slogans. Police seized spare tires apparently intended for burning roadblocks. "What Arafat really wants isn't an Arab state next to Israel, but an Arab state instead of Israel," said Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of right-wing Likud Party. He spoke from a second-floor balcony draped with a banner reading: "Death to the Master Murderer." Usually leaders of the mainstream opposition party distance themselves from such belligerent slogans.

The Associated Press Members of Israeli right-wing crowd estimated at 100,000 reach to rip apart Palestinian flag. The crowd booed and hissed at each mention of Arafat's name. A little girl waved a Likud flag and shouted, "Death to Arafat." Many were angered by Arafat's comments that Palestinians would not rest until Jerusalem was capital of a Palestinian state. Jerusalem is at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as the mixed Jewish-Arab city is claimed by both sides as a capital. Israel seized Arab east Jerusalem in 1967, but its annexation of it isn't recognized by most nations.

The demonstrators also vented their rage at Rabin, with some burning his picture as well. "In blood and fire, throw Rabin out!" some youths shouted in a parody of the Palestinian slogan of defiance against Israeli rule. The nighttime rally followed a smaller protest at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. It is only remnant of the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. Guarded by hundreds of police, about 4,000 men and boys in dark pants and white shirts swayed as they recited afternoon prayers.

"This is our land, and I don't agree to giving any of it to Arafat," said Dan Heth, 62, who waved a large Israeli flag in a crowd behind the worshippers. Earlier Saturday, Arafat said Jewish opponents of the autonomy accord with the PLO were "exaggerating the whole thing." The Associated Press Palestinian flashes victory sign as he listens to Yasser Arafat speak at Jebaliya refugee camp. over the camp, where 70,000 Palestinians live in crushing poverty amid open sewers and mounds of garbage. Joblessness is widespread. Earlier, Arafat vowed he was home for good afte 27 years in exile, convened a first session of his fledgling government and promised Palestinians that a state waits at the end of the hard road ahead.

In remarks punctuated by fist-thumping spurts of anger and quick smiles, Arafat told an early-morning news conference he was upset by the world's failure to make good on promises of aid for the self-rule government. "All the international offers are only ink on paper and nothing has been implemented until now," he said. "My feeling is that they are just promises, promises, promises." Arafat wore his customary olive-drab uniform and black-and-white headscarf. He was ringed by a cordon of nervous security men, who leaped at a reporter approaching Arafat's table to flip over a tape in a tape recorder. Security has been a major concern, often given precedence over allowing people a glimpse of their long-awaited leader.

During Arafat's speech Friday afternoon to 70,000 people in Gaza's Square of the Unknown Soldier, there was an assassination scare when a cameraman used equipment that looked like a pistol grip. Police arrested him. According to the peace pact signed by Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel last September, self-rule is to last five years, with the final status of the West Bank and Gaza to be negotiated two years from now. The Palestinian National Authority is to run Gaza and Jericho until elections are held in mid-October at the earliest. It will be sworn in Monday in Jericho, said Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein.

-deal possible. i the agreement that we signed isn't satisfac-t tor'y for some people, but it's the best we could get in the terrible Arab circumstances." -Arafat again called on Israel to free the thousands of Palestinian prisoners it still holds, many of them opponents of the autonomy accord who have refused to sign statements renouncing violence that Israel demands as a condition for their release. "It was a reassuring speech," said Tayseer Atut, a Hamas follower. Tluli, 50, said she was happier after hearing rArafat's promise of a better future than she was on her wedding day. "When we used to go out, the soldiers used to shoot at us.

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The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front, led by the minority Tutsis, has taken some two-thirds of the country since the fighting began in early April, and has mounted a ferocious assault on Kigali. Since the French mission began, the RPF has alleged that it would be a move to bolster the government, as France has done in the past. "We want France to interpose itself between the belligerent sides," Rwandan Foreign Minister Jerome Bicamumpaka told the AP in Gis-enyi, where the provisional government fled after being driven from Kigali. A French government official in Paris told the AP, "In no case have we offered help to the government." The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the Rwanda government now based in Gisenyi, "is no longer representative of the country." France says its mission is strictly for humanitarian purposes, but the rebels are suspicious because French troops helped the government thwart a 1990 rebel offensive. The Associated Press GISENYI, Rwanda Rebels have surrounded the capital of Ki-'.

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